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Sleaford Mods: Key Markets

John Lewis, Uncut, August 2015

IF SLEAFORD MODS didn't exist, one gets the impression that the music press would probably have invented them. Journalists of a certain age love interviewing people like Jason Williamson — a mouthy, entertaining fortysomething with a hinterland and a life before music — while Andrew Fearn's minimal backing tapes draw from every critical hobby horse of the past 40 years: the DIY urgency of punk, the laptop expediency of rave, the minimal thunder of early hip-hop.

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